October 8–11, 2026, Bread Loaf Campus
Join us for the Middlebury College Greenberg-Starr Department of Chinese 50th Anniversary Alumni Reunion and Conference.
Regardless of your college major or current language proficiency, if you studied Chinese during the academic year with the Middlebury College Chinese department, you are invited!
Thursday–Sunday packages include: three nights at Bread Loaf; breakfast, lunch, and dinner on Friday and Saturday; and breakfast and lunch on Sunday (Thursday meals are not included).
Friday–Sunday packages include two nights at Bread Loaf; dinner Friday; breakfast, lunch, and dinner on Saturday; and breakfast and lunch on Sunday.
Cancellations, refund requests, and questions about online registration may be directed to the Alumni Office at alumni@middlebury.edu.
Other questions may be addressed to Truscott Professor Emeritus of Chinese John Berninghausen at berningh@middlebury.edu and/or C.V. Starr Professor of Chinese and Chair of Chinese, Carrie Wiebe at wiebe@middlebury.edu.
The tentative schedule is as follows:
Thursday, October 8
Friday, October 9
Saturday, October 10
Sunday, October 11
Lauren Szymanski, Director Hopkins-Nanjing Center, will visit campus to speak with Middlebury students about graduate programs in Nanjing. This year also marks the Hopkins-Nanjing Center’s 40th anniversary, and starting in Fall 2026 they’re excited to launch new program options in English at the HNC for students without advanced Chinese.
Munroe 317
Lecture by Alumnus Lucas Klein
Classical Piano and Jazz: On Translating Vernacular and Classical Chinese Poetry
Axinn Center 232
The faculty and staff of the Greenberg-Starr Department of Chinese Language and Literature condemn the recent and ongoing violence and harassment directed at Chinese, Chinese Americans, Asians, Asian Americans, and Pacific Islanders. As a department we exist to make Chinese voices heard. We exist to create a welcoming and supportive home for each and every one of our students. We assert that Black Lives Matter, and we stand with Middlebury students, administrators, faculty, and staff who are combatting all forms of racial and gender injustice, discrimination, and violence. As teachers, scholars, and members of the Middlebury community, we pledge to continue to learn, grow, and do everything we can to help advance the College’s commitment to creating a diverse, welcoming community with full and equal participation for all individuals and groups. We will endeavor to do more to educate ourselves and our students about the ethnic and cultural diversity within China and do more to expose students to more of the Sinophone world. We invite our students to share their ideas with us as to how we can best promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in the life and work of the Chinese Department.
